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...like a dream, 65 times in ten weeks. The setup: a fugitive from justice in the Los Angeles area receives notice at his last known address that a package containing $2,000 worth of unspecified goods is waiting for him at FIST Bonded Delivery Courier Service. Curiosity piqued and greed aroused, he calls the number on the notice to arrange delivery. The number he dials happens to be a Marine barracks in Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County. The person he speaks with is working for the U.S. Marshals Service...
...around the world and looks like everybody's taking potshots at them, or taking a piece of this from them or a piece of that. People are trying to break up the family, and I'm trying to hold it together. The greed for money is what it is. I'm not about that at all. What I'm speaking about is outsiders who see money possibilities and try to separate the boys for their own purposes. I'm not talking about each of the boys going off and making their own albums. Michael hasn...
Cooperman maintains that investment managers "move between greed and fear." Until recently, he said, "greed had outdistanced fear." Reason: "I think people believed that interest rates were going to decline." But then President Reagan's budget convinced investors that deficits will remain huge and help push the cost of borrowing higher. To frightened stock-fund managers, that signaled not only slower economic growth but, more important to them, brisker competition from the markets for bonds and other interest-paying investments...
...fully as criminal. They have a right to equal suspicion," says one malefactress - Cornelisen shares both the conspirators' secrets and their seditious high spirits. But she refuses to let them get away clean. After the caper, the culprits are unsettled not by their guilt or greed but, more fittingly, by their insouciance and sprightly intelligence. And in the end they begin to suspect that inefficiency may, after all, be Italy's greatest charm, and chivalry men's saving grace...
...bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing to do with the blunders and greed of the upper classes toward the colonies, and I don't see why I should put up with the results now. The first thing the blacks do is go on welfare. And I'm tired of people working in the post office who don't speak proper...